2026 roster ledger

Most Backyard Players

More than half of Georgia State’s roster grew up within 100 miles of campus. Only five programs can say that of a majority.

Share of the 2026 roster from within 100 miles of campus; change vs. 2016–18

A backyard player grew up within 100 miles of campus—close enough that home games can still feel like homecomings.

Conference

138 teams

Rank				Players
1	Georgia State	Sun Belt	54.7%	58 / 106	↓ 11.3 pts
2	Maryland	Big Ten	54.5%	54 / 99	↓ 1.1 pts
3	Georgia Tech	ACC	52.8%	56 / 106	↓ 3.3 pts
4	Temple	American Athletic	51.4%	55 / 107	↓ 8.5 pts
5	Hawai'i	Mountain West	50.0%	49 / 98	↑ 13.3 pts
6	BYU	Big 12	48.2%	55 / 114	↑ 13.5 pts
7	Florida International	Conference USA	47.1%	49 / 104	↑ 2.3 pts
8	Rutgers	Big Ten	46.4%	52 / 112	↓ 27.6 pts
9	Louisiana	Sun Belt	43.0%	43 / 100	↑ 12.6 pts
10	Delaware	Conference USA	42.4%	42 / 99	↓ 33.7 pts
11	USC	Big Ten	42.3%	52 / 123	↓ 11.7 pts
12	Houston	Big 12	42.1%	48 / 114	↓ 11.4 pts
13	UCLA	Big Ten	41.5%	49 / 118	↓ 15.8 pts
14	Georgia	SEC	40.5%	49 / 121	↓ 11.6 pts
15	North Texas	American Athletic	39.8%	41 / 103	↓ 5.9 pts
16	San José State	Mountain West	38.8%	38 / 98	↑ 8.1 pts
17	Utah State	Pac-12	38.5%	35 / 91	↑ 13.9 pts
18	Jacksonville State	Conference USA	37.5%	45 / 120	↓ 18.6 pts
19	SMU	ACC	37.3%	38 / 102	↓ 5.1 pts
20	Kennesaw State	Conference USA	36.2%	34 / 94	↓ 28.3 pts
21	Kent State	Mid-American	35.8%	38 / 106	↑ 5.2 pts
22	Sacramento State	Mid-American	35.6%	32 / 90	—
23	San Diego State	Pac-12	35.2%	38 / 108	↓ 2.2 pts
24	South Carolina	SEC	34.0%	35 / 103	↑ 1.7 pts
25	Ball State	Mid-American	33.3%	35 / 105	↓ 3.9 pts
26	Northern Illinois	Mountain West	32.1%	34 / 106	↓ 15.1 pts
27	TCU	Big 12	31.6%	37 / 117	↓ 1.7 pts
28	Toledo	Mid-American	31.0%	27 / 87	↑ 2.5 pts
29	Michigan State	Big Ten	30.3%	33 / 109	↓ 8.2 pts
30	Tulsa	American Athletic	30.0%	30 / 100	↓ 0.3 pts
31	Texas A&M	SEC	30.0%	36 / 120	↓ 7.5 pts
32	Utah	Big 12	29.7%	30 / 101	↓ 4.8 pts
33	Indiana	Big Ten	29.0%	27 / 93	↑ 7.9 pts
34	Auburn	SEC	28.7%	31 / 108	↓ 8.4 pts
35	LSU	SEC	28.4%	29 / 102	↓ 18.0 pts
36	Ohio State	Big Ten	27.6%	32 / 116	↑ 3.6 pts
37	Akron	Mid-American	27.4%	23 / 84	↓ 5.1 pts
38	Baylor	Big 12	27.4%	29 / 106	↓ 5.5 pts
39	Middle Tennessee	Conference USA	27.2%	28 / 103	↑ 7.8 pts
40	Northwestern	Big Ten	27.1%	32 / 118	↑ 6.8 pts
41	UCF	Big 12	27.0%	27 / 100	↓ 2.3 pts
42	Rice	American Athletic	27.0%	27 / 100	↓ 16.3 pts
43	UAB	American Athletic	26.5%	27 / 102	↓ 5.7 pts
44	Florida Atlantic	American Athletic	26.4%	29 / 110	↓ 20.7 pts
45	Miami (OH)	Mid-American	26.3%	31 / 118	↓ 1.0 pts
46	South Florida	American Athletic	26.2%	28 / 107	↓ 22.4 pts
47	Sam Houston	Conference USA	26.0%	26 / 100	↓ 9.1 pts
48	Virginia	ACC	25.7%	28 / 109	↓ 10.0 pts
49	Nebraska	Big Ten	25.5%	28 / 110	↓ 7.6 pts
50	Louisville	ACC	25.3%	25 / 99	↓ 0.2 pts
51	Louisiana Tech	Sun Belt	24.3%	26 / 107	↓ 6.4 pts
52	Alabama	SEC	24.1%	28 / 116	↑ 1.9 pts
53	Massachusetts	Mid-American	23.9%	21 / 88	↓ 9.8 pts
54	Eastern Michigan	Mid-American	23.9%	26 / 109	↓ 6.8 pts
55	Miami	ACC	23.8%	25 / 105	↓ 17.3 pts
56	UTSA	American Athletic	23.7%	27 / 114	↓ 3.4 pts
57	Fresno State	Pac-12	23.4%	25 / 107	↑ 0.8 pts
58	Washington	Big Ten	23.2%	23 / 99	↓ 12.7 pts
59	Tulane	American Athletic	22.1%	25 / 113	↓ 13.9 pts
60	Cincinnati	Big 12	21.7%	23 / 106	↓ 10.4 pts
61	Southern Miss	Sun Belt	21.4%	22 / 103	↓ 20.2 pts
62	Florida	SEC	20.5%	23 / 112	↓ 8.6 pts
63	Marshall	Sun Belt	20.4%	19 / 93	↑ 9.9 pts
64	South Alabama	Sun Belt	20.4%	23 / 113	↓ 3.3 pts
65	Pittsburgh	ACC	20.0%	22 / 110	↓ 14.1 pts
66	Clemson	ACC	19.8%	23 / 116	↓ 10.2 pts
67	Charlotte	American Athletic	19.8%	20 / 101	↓ 22.2 pts
68	Colorado State	Pac-12	19.8%	16 / 81	↓ 8.0 pts
69	Ohio	Mid-American	19.6%	18 / 92	↓ 6.8 pts
70	Central Michigan	Mid-American	19.4%	20 / 103	↓ 13.5 pts
71	Nevada	Mountain West	19.4%	19 / 98	↑ 1.1 pts
72	Wisconsin	Big Ten	19.0%	19 / 100	↓ 17.2 pts
73	California	ACC	19.0%	19 / 100	↓ 8.6 pts
74	Bowling Green	Mid-American	19.0%	19 / 100	↑ 0.6 pts
75	Buffalo	Mid-American	18.7%	20 / 107	↓ 2.4 pts
76	Kansas	Big 12	18.3%	20 / 109	↑ 7.6 pts
77	Purdue	Big Ten	18.2%	20 / 110	↓ 6.0 pts
78	Oklahoma State	Big 12	18.2%	20 / 110	↓ 4.7 pts
79	NC State	ACC	18.2%	22 / 121	↓ 21.4 pts
80	Kentucky	SEC	17.6%	18 / 102	↓ 8.2 pts
81	Boston College	ACC	17.0%	19 / 112	↓ 9.8 pts
82	App State	Sun Belt	16.9%	14 / 83	↓ 13.3 pts
83	East Carolina	American Athletic	16.8%	19 / 113	↓ 14.7 pts
84	Texas	SEC	16.7%	18 / 108	↓ 3.1 pts
85	Minnesota	Big Ten	16.2%	17 / 105	↓ 15.9 pts
86	UL Monroe	Sun Belt	16.1%	15 / 93	↓ 6.8 pts
87	Oklahoma	SEC	16.0%	17 / 106	↑ 0.7 pts
88	UNLV	Mountain West	15.2%	16 / 105	↓ 5.1 pts
89	Ole Miss	SEC	15.1%	16 / 106	↓ 1.2 pts
90	James Madison	Sun Belt	14.9%	15 / 101	↓ 28.8 pts
91	Iowa	Big Ten	14.6%	15 / 103	↓ 11.0 pts
92	Navy	American Athletic	14.5%	27 / 186	↑ 4.4 pts
93	Arizona	Big 12	14.3%	14 / 98	↓ 1.2 pts
94	Oregon	Big Ten	14.2%	16 / 113	↑ 0.9 pts
95	Notre Dame	FBS Independents	14.2%	15 / 106	↓ 0.2 pts
96	Mississippi State	SEC	14.2%	15 / 106	↓ 1.2 pts
97	Western Michigan	Mid-American	14.1%	14 / 99	↓ 7.8 pts
98	Oregon State	Pac-12	13.7%	14 / 102	↓ 6.2 pts
99	Vanderbilt	SEC	13.6%	15 / 110	↑ 0.4 pts
100	Old Dominion	Sun Belt	13.4%	13 / 97	↓ 22.0 pts
101	Arizona State	Big 12	13.4%	13 / 97	↓ 13.5 pts
102	UConn	FBS Independents	12.9%	11 / 85	↓ 29.4 pts
103	Wake Forest	ACC	12.5%	12 / 96	↓ 9.1 pts
104	Tennessee	SEC	12.4%	13 / 105	↓ 0.3 pts
105	Iowa State	Big 12	12.3%	15 / 122	↓ 6.3 pts
106	Troy	Sun Belt	12.2%	12 / 98	↓ 16.3 pts
107	Missouri	SEC	11.4%	12 / 105	↑ 2.3 pts
108	Virginia Tech	ACC	11.0%	13 / 118	↓ 4.4 pts
109	Memphis	American Athletic	10.8%	11 / 102	↓ 23.4 pts
110	Boise State	Pac-12	10.7%	11 / 103	↓ 2.9 pts
111	Stanford	ACC	10.5%	11 / 105	↑ 4.3 pts
112	North Dakota State	Mountain West	10.4%	12 / 115	—
113	Georgia Southern	Sun Belt	10.3%	12 / 117	↓ 3.9 pts
114	Texas State	Pac-12	9.8%	10 / 102	↓ 7.8 pts
115	UTEP	Mountain West	9.6%	10 / 104	↓ 15.2 pts
116	Michigan	Big Ten	9.6%	11 / 115	↓ 20.0 pts
117	New Mexico	Mountain West	9.3%	10 / 107	↓ 4.8 pts
118	Penn State	Big Ten	9.2%	10 / 109	↓ 1.5 pts
119	North Carolina	ACC	8.9%	9 / 101	↓ 13.9 pts
120	Florida State	ACC	8.8%	9 / 102	↓ 1.6 pts
121	Liberty	Conference USA	8.7%	9 / 103	↓ 7.8 pts
122	Coastal Carolina	Sun Belt	8.3%	8 / 96	↓ 9.4 pts
123	Air Force	Mountain West	8.2%	11 / 134	↑ 1.9 pts
124	Wyoming	Mountain West	7.7%	8 / 104	↓ 1.3 pts
125	Illinois	Big Ten	7.5%	8 / 107	↑ 0.5 pts
126	West Virginia	Big 12	7.3%	8 / 109	↓ 18.0 pts
127	New Mexico State	Conference USA	7.1%	7 / 99	↓ 4.6 pts
128	Western Kentucky	Conference USA	6.9%	7 / 102	↓ 24.3 pts
129	Arkansas State	Sun Belt	6.4%	7 / 109	↓ 11.7 pts
130	Arkansas	SEC	6.2%	7 / 113	↓ 8.3 pts
131	Duke	ACC	6.2%	6 / 97	↓ 1.9 pts
132	Texas Tech	Big 12	5.9%	6 / 101	↑ 1.9 pts
133	Colorado	Big 12	5.9%	6 / 101	↓ 23.8 pts
134	Kansas State	Big 12	5.7%	6 / 105	↓ 13.1 pts
135	Army	American Athletic	5.3%	10 / 189	↓ 0.5 pts
136	Missouri State	Conference USA	5.3%	5 / 95	↓ 13.6 pts
137	Washington State	Pac-12	5.1%	5 / 99	↑ 2.5 pts
138	Syracuse	ACC	4.2%	4 / 95	↓ 0.8 pts

Comparisons use the 2016–18 baseline where available. Teams without enough reliable history remain in the current-roster table but show no change.